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It’s MY lost footage of Niagara Falls! Â IÂ thought this footage was toast, but lo-and-behold, I recovered it from a disk I’ve been having trouble with… Â you know, staying out late, smoking cigarettes with its friends… Â After the mess of this week, we totally needed this.

While I was working at CAST, I took Thomas Bretgeld (creator of the Creation console for GLP) over to see the falls, as he lives in Germany and had never seen the falls. Â I could not let that happen, so off we went to see Niagara Falls! Â This is just the random footage from that trip, with some cool music in the background. Â All the footage was taken with my Sony NEX-5N.

I wonder if that title is clear enough? Â Here’a a great video of one of those $800 Lego Star Wars destroyer thingsÂ dropped from a lift by some great nerds who had a circular camera dolly rig set up just to film that said $800 worth of Lego destruction.

(I looked and could only find one of those bad puppies for $1500. Â FUCK. Â That’s a lot of Legos.)

Have you ever heard of Nanophotonics? Â It’s also called nano-optics — things like laser communication, optimizing solar cells and how much they can generate, near-field microscopy, surface-plasmon resonance microscopy (SPR), and lots of other very focused research (no pun intended, but ha haaa) into how light interacts when it’s squeezed into very, very tiny volumes.

Regardless, it’s photonics and optics, and that is one of my favorite research locations! Â Here’s Professor Kent Choquette at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana talking nanophotonics to a group of students. Â WARNING, NON-NERDS: Â This is over an hour, and not for the feeble mathÂ minded!

Are you ready to get your face melted off by some incredible power and vocals?! Â I know I am. Â I’ve been in a rock-and-fucking-roll-throw-the-TV-out-the-hotel-window mood for the last several weeks, pushing harder and harder to write more and more content at work.

I actually heard about three seconds of these guys’ tune on the movie Swearnet (which is frigging awesome and will make you laugh harder than Betty Davis telling Rudy Giuliani that he needs a facelift) and it is well worth the few minutes it’s gonna take to get that face melted. Â Also, the video is pretty super cool!

Check it, but before you wreck it, crank it up — this is Rival Sons performing Pressure and Time.

I found this incredible video of the transformation that happens between a Chicago Blackhawks ice hockey game and a Chicago Bulls basketball game — all on the same court. Â Now we think we’re pretty awesome people when we tour and put in these massive configurations of cable, computing, and networking… Â but when it really comes down to sheer weight moved and work done (in the pure physics sense of the word WORK) these crews are the shit.

Check this out:

All of this is from an excellent article in the Tribune called Game Changers… Â this below, for example, is a minute-by-minute timeline of the changeover. Â I’ll never bitch about an overnight changeover ever again…

This might be the most ridiculous thing I have seen this year so far –Â and I have seen some fucked up shit this year!

This is the video for Chinese rock band Wang Rong Rollin, and their song “Chick Chick,” which I think is about some type of hair product… Â or some kind of gel-based lingerie set… or maybe it’s about chickens that at one time had applied for Harvard, only to find out that they hadn’t scored terribly well on the SATs. Â Honestly, I have no earthly fucking idea what this is, but someone who shall remain nameless TOBIN sent this to me and it must be shared with the insanity of the population of people of light. Â Enjoy, crazy people.

I personally have never seen Carry On My Wayward Son played with this much enthusiasm, um, ever. Â Not even at karaoke nights. Â Maaaaybe not even ever at karaoke nights back when I used to drink a lot, and those were some crazy nights.

I found this on Dangerous Minds, andÂ this is too awesome not to share (check out Dangerous MindsÂ — one of my favorite blogs!):

A few online sources mention that years later, in the â€˜90s, Walsh was supposedly arrested for possession and threatened with jail time. We also know from this 700 Club interview that guitarist Kerry Livgren and bassist Dave Hope were seriously addicted until they â€œfound God.â€ In that particular interview, Hope admits to having spent $40,000 (in 1980 dollars!) on cocaine the year before his Christian rebirth. We can only guess what the differences would be between Dave Hopeâ€™s and Steve Walshâ€™s level of commitment to the white lady, but this performance seems to indicate Walsh was in imminent danger of flying off the stage and into the stratosphere at any second.

You see, as I have heard many times before…Cocaine makes you a brand new man! Â The problem then becomes that the brand new man then wants some cocaine.

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